K.Butt

Whilst I do not want to get into an arguement with any poster I must say to K Butt that if a person of any age climbed over any fence or passed through a gate onto private property with the intent to recover a ball etc that would NOT be a criminal offence . To prove a criminal offence one of the requirements must be intent to do a criminal,act.

I don't mind a good argument, if you enter another persons land without their permission you are trespassing! 

The bard wire does not stop people climbing over the fence until they come into contact with it . One type of incident which comes to mind is kids playing football alongside this fence and their ball goes over the fence , one of the first things a kid will do is to try and reclaim his ball . Not a criminal offence but the kid could be injured. Likewise a cat could also be injured climbing over.

 

Having said all that I would protect my property in anyway I could to prevent "criminals" from entering it. There are legal ways to use bard wire on a fence.

Climbing over the fence would be classed as a criminal offence and you could not only cause criminal damage in the process but you would be trespassing. The barbed wire acts as a deterrent and anyone who can see it if they had any sense would stay away not proceed to climb over it. 

I am not surprised that these artist leave the area so quickly! Young adults are treated like kids and there are many who leave Hereford at the weekend for a much better weekend in other cities such as Worcester and Cardiff. This council need to get with it.

The flats in Beatie avenue were built about 1946 then in 1947/50 the ones in Kilvert Road, Jubilee court and Belmont Road. In fact the flats behind Jubilee court are the oldest of the Newton Farm flats.

The prefabs in Hunderton were built for families who were bombed in the cities and the men were demobbed within the Marches area.

The bungalows in Beatie avenue built for injured servicemen and thier families.

When I was born my mum had to catch a bus serving outlying villages, apparently Wednesdays and Saturdays.

I had photographs of my Dutch uncle (no pun) working on the Cornish flats in Kilvert road.

Please dig them out and post them on here I would love to see some old photographs, thanks for the info. 

Well it was not meant to taken personally, I was merely pointing out the OBVIOUS reason behind putting the barbed wire across the top of this fence. I am aware of the law I am not sure this qualifies because where Glastonbury Close is at the back of the hotel it used to be fields and the hotel and the fencing at the back was definitely there way before Glastonbury Close, the reason I know this is my uncle has lived in Golden Post for over 40 years and we were only recently discussing the corn field that used to be there. So if the hotel was there before the Close why should this law apply and what is the purpose of barbed wire anyway?

I am in agreement with Alex, barbed wire across the top of the fence is there to stop people climbing over that's the whole point. It will be interesting to see if any councillors can shed any light on Alex's comments above because I think he may have a valid point.

But surely the "footbridge" would need to be a ramp, if its to be accessible to all??

Think about the gradient.....it would have to go on...and on...and on....!!!!

 

Surely the shared space idea is more pedestrian friendly for the able and not so able bodied???

Yes, I am all for shared space but you get wet when it rains etc a footbridge would come out of the 2nd level, Debenhams or something, most places have these coming from the 2nd floor which these days always has disabled access across into the top floor of Tesco (and yes there is one) or directly into Maylords and this is fraction of the distance they have at Cabot Circus

I think I speak for most when I say it's not about "saving" buildings. It's about looking after them so they don't go to **** in the first place. Oxford is packed with historic buildings and it fills the city with character because they are maintained and not left to rot as most things are in Hereford. Look at the Left Bank, that was a complete new build, left to to rot just like everything else. So it doesn't really matter if the building is torn out and something modern put in it's place, the council will fail to look after that as well. 

How can the council be at blame for the left bank, it is privately owed just like the eye sore in town! 

I have only just noticed that if you scroll to the very bottom of a topic it shows you which members have visited and read it, I like that. Sorry for the small, possibly somewhat pointless posting but I wanted to share what I learned tonight.       

Voted 

Personally, I prefer No Lights Equal Rights it's more descriptive of your objectives, agree with you Martin on this one.

Yep - I like that no lights equal rights very catchy and an ideal name in my opinion.

That is a disgrace! 3 years? I too would of sen another email demanding to know why so long for something that would be pretty simple to implement.

I concur with Colin's findings, the traffic problem is only for southbound traffic where the traffic lights are in place, when we drove into town this morning it took 12 mins from Newton Farm junction by St Francis to Commercial Road opposite Fusion nightclub, which is pretty good and I put this down to the traffic lights being off north, so this says to me that the traffic lights are definitely causing the traffic congestion

I agree too, traffic issue is only where they have temp lights in place and why only on that exit?

Good to see that the bullies did not get their way. Well done Glenda Vaughan-Powell  

Well in fairness to our Councillors I actually emailed them all invites over the weekend, these are the ones who have chosen to register and join HV, so lets cut them a little slack eh.. otherwise they will be gone before they have chance to say or do anything!   

Ditto and welcome to HV Councillors, lets hope you can help out as much as Cllr Vaughan-Powell has over the years on here. I would like to extend my warmest wishes and welcome you all.

At last somewhere for the young people to go. I am in favour of that.

Sign is still missing, I noticed today when I drove back into town. I hope they replace this soon before our little feathered friends get hurt.

Has it been removed yet?

Not the best Chris, no pride in their work as someone has already said, it's all about speed and costs, value for money seems to be near the bottom of the list nowadays.

I downloaded these clips and they are really good.

Great work Colin & welcome to Southwyevoice Wendy

After today I can see why Colin wants these traffic lights turned off, traffic is flowing lovely

I thought that you were the BRPC Clerk or has your job description changed to Councillor? Surely if we are not happy or want to air our views we would contact our ELECTED Councillors? I don't remember electing you to be fair.

 

Colin, as per usual you can guarantee that this will be a half hearted job and of course they are not going to give lights to a footpath that would be asking too much lol

I had the same thoughts exactly.

This area needs to be illuminated during the hours of darkness and LED light would be ideal as they do not pollute the surrounding homes only the footpath beneath.

I found a few more of these mysterious posts, these first two are obviously on the Great Western Way

These two are clearly near the old garages on the GWW (opposite the Oval shops) most of the dead post locations are on each picture. The first post is actually on the GWW near the Hunderton bridge where the bank rises, most of these are obvious to be fair, get amy to log in here they will soon see where they all are like you say poor excuse indeed, just glad nobody has hurt themselves.

This one is just along the footpath along side the Brampton Road Stores walking down towards the school on the left

Plenty of comments (21) about this topic on HT website. Like others how is this to be paid for. I think the motive is for Herefordshire Housing to save itself a lot of money on sending post out if it can access tenants through the internet.

Yes I have read most and I can see why so many people are angry about this!

There are some lovely pictures there megilleland, keep up the good work.